[Shapelib] Creating an Arc

[Frank Warmerdam]

Sling Blade wrote:
> 
> You are correct that shapefiles cannot store curved arcs.  The normal
> technique is to approximate them as polylines.
> 
> 
> What would be great would be to learn how to approximate an Arc with
> Polylines. Do you have any code showing how this is done?
> 
> Regards

Sling,

There is some example code for converting arcs to polylines in:

  http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/oci/ogrocistroke.cpp

A lot depends on how your arcs are defined.

Best regards,
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